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wangweij | 9 years ago

While I am able to switch to another browser (I already did a long time ago), I don't believe I can avoid visiting sites "that show ads from Google". How much can Google collect from those sites?

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forgotpwtomain|9 years ago

I highly recommend:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

https://github.com/gorhill/umatrix

bad_user|9 years ago

There's also Privacy Badger by EFF: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

SimeVidas|9 years ago

Firefox has a “tracking protection” setting which blocks these types of third party trackers.

Sylos|9 years ago

Which is default-enabled in Private Browsing, and you can enable it for normal browsing as well by setting "privacy.trackingprotection.enabled" in about:config to true. A GUI-toggle for this should make it into Stable in the next few releases...

JoshTriplett|9 years ago

> While I am able to switch to another browser (I already did a long time ago), I don't believe I can avoid visiting sites "that show ads from Google".

You can block those ads, and the scripts that serve them and collect data.

lensi|9 years ago

The simple setting, most seem to be overlooking, is don't allow third party cookies. Voila.